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Detective and mystery stories England Social conditions 19th century Fiction Lane, Liberty (Fictitious character) Fiction London (England) Social conditions 19th century Fiction Mills and mill-work New England Fiction Monk, William (Fictitious character) Fiction New England Social conditions 19th century Fiction Orphans England Fiction Private investigators England London Fiction Women private investigators FictionFoulds, Adam
Summary: It's 1837, and poet John Clare has been put in a mental institution outside London called High Beach. Soon another writer arrives on the scene-- one Alfred, Lord Tennyson-- and their lives become entwined with High Beach's strange owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOUShreve, Anita.
Summary: In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHRPeacock, Caro.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creme De La Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEALiss, David
Summary: Lucy Derrick, a young Regency woman of good breeding and poor finances, is warned by a beautiful stricken man not to marry Mr. Olson, the local mill owner. Soon it becomes clear that there is more at stake than her own happiness--and that she is caught between two forces, one ancient and one modern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISPerry, Anne.
Summary: Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2010Peacock, Caro.
Summary: London, 1840. Private investigator Liberty faces a conundrum when her younger brother Tom, an East India Company employee, is unexpectedly summoned to London to give evidence at an official enquiry into the murder of a wealthy merchant.s assistant, found with his throat cut en route to Bombay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creme de la Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAPerry, Anne.
Summary: Though Monk is witness to the terrible bombing of an afternoon pleasure boat on the river that leaves 200 people dead, much to his dismay the case is taken from his hands and given over to the commissioner of police. An Egyptian man is quickly caught, tried, and sentenced to death--and then just as swiftly murdered in prison. When evidence surfaces that proves the dead man innocent, the case is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERShreve, Anita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ShrevDickens, Charles
Summary: A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P DICDickens, Charles
Summary: The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Oliver Twist dares to ask for more food, and with this a character was created that would be loved the world over and whose story would be adapted into countless television, film, theatre and film productions. For anyone wishing to read the works of the great Charles Dickens, Oliver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flame Tree Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICRaybourn, Deanna.
Summary: "These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, Sir Edward collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of dinner guests. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAYDickens, Charles
Summary: The adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DICPerry, Anne.
Summary: "Though Monk is witness to the terrible bombing of an afternoon pleasure boat on the river that leaves 200 people dead, much to his dismay the case is taken from his hands and given over to the commissioner of police. An Egyptian man is quickly caught, tried, and sentenced to death--and then just as swiftly murdered in prison. When evidence surfaces that proves the dead man innocent, the case...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2014Gooden, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011